John Wilkins

Shaun Hill

In Food in the Ancient World, a respected classicist and a practising world-class chef explore a millennium of eating and drinking. Explores a millennium of food consumption, from c.750 BC to 200 AD. Shows the pivotal role food had in a world where it was linked with morality and the social order. Concerns people from all walks of life – impoverished citizens subsisting on cereals to the meat-eating elites. Describes religious sacrifices, ancient dinner parties and drinking bouts, as well as exotic foods and recipes. Considers the role of food in ancient literature from Homer to Juvenal and Petronius.

Food in the Ancient World

Warm Blooded Things

Marcus Wareing

Charlie Trotter

Chopping, slicing, dicing, carving, filleting, and boning - knife skills are fundamental to good cooking. This title demonstrates every technique with clear step-by-step colour photographs. It shows you how to cut to perfection from carving a roast and filleting fish to preparing fruit and vegetables.

Knife Skills

Lyn Hall

Chopping, slicing, dicing, carving, filleting, and boning – knife skills are fundamental to good cooking, and this is the first book to demonstrate every technique with clear step-by-step colour photographs. Written by two Michelin-starred chefs, Marcus Wareing and Shaun Hill, Charlie Trotter, and Lyn Hall from the renowned La Petite Cuisine School of Cooking, you can rest assured that your knife skills will be perfected.

How to Carve, Chop, Slice, Fillet

Written by three Michelin-starred chefs: Charlie Trotter, Marcus Wareing, and Shaun Hill, this book covers every cutting technique—chopping, slicing, dicing, carving, filleting—for every relevant ingredient: meat, fish, shellfish, vegetables, herbs, and fruit.

Shaun Hill

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